Bleideag

Icelandic inspired colourwork yoke sweater

£8.00

Aran weight yarn
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A yoked pullover Ysolda designed as a collaboration with our studio manager Bex. Bex's vision was to combine more affordable Létt Lopi as the main colour of a sweater and use Einrúm for the yoke, really highlighting its beauty.

Designed to use warm but relatively light yarn, this is a great pattern for a more experienced knitter or someone less advanced who wants to try stranded colourwork. It could even work as your first sweater project. Bleideag is a loose-fitting, drapey style that mixes the more affordable Létt Lopi as the main colour of the sweater and highlighting the yoke with Einrúm yarn. It’s available in sizes XS-5XL.

A black woman wearing pink lipstick and a blue beanie stands in front of a window. She's wearing a black wool jumper with an eye catching white, silver, and grey colourwork yoke.

Cropped image of the back yoke of the Bleideag pattern, black sweater with a grey, silver, and white colourwork yoke. The person wearing the sweater has curly shoulder length blond hair.

Close up image of white hands with fingers curled in toward the palms, showing off the white colour work detail at the cuffs of black sleeves one a knit sweater.

Details

‘Bleideag’ is the Scottish Gaelic word for snowflake, which felt appropriate given the delicate snowflake-inspired yoke on this sweater style.

To make the Bleideag sweater, you work up from the bottom in the round. We've included directions for optional short row bust shaping and hope you can use this to create the fit you're looking for on the chest. The sleeves are joined to the body at the underarm, before moving on to the yoke. The yoke is also worked in the round, and decreases are subtly incorporated into the colourwork.. Short rows are used to lower the yoke at the front and raise the back of the neck so you end up with a shape that's right for you.

Skills for knitting this project

Build your skills by following the links to our clear step-by-step tutorials.

knitting, purling
casting on
binding off
working in the round
working small circumferences in the round
k2tog decreases
short rows
colourwork (using a chart)

Optional Techniques

Gauge

16 sts and 21 rnds = 4˝" in st st in the rnd.

Stranded Colourwork Basics course

Learn all of the skills you need to make Bleideag with our beginner colourwork course. The Stranded Colourwork Basics course is a 4 week self-guided online knitting course, with continued access to the course so that you can return to each chapter for a refresher, again and again, whenever you need.

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Supplies

Yarn

Aran weight yarn with good elasticity, wool or wool blends are ideal. Shown in Ístex Létt Lopi (100% Icelandic wool, 109yds / 100m, 50g). MC – 0005 Black Heather

Contrast colours shown in Einrúm L+2 (92% Icelandic Wool, 8% Thai Silk, 102yds / 93m, 50g). CC1 – 2005, CC2 – 2001, CC3 – 2008

Needles and notions

US 9 / 5.5mm 24” / 60cm or longer circular needle.

Yardage

For your selected size you will receive the number of balls of MC Ístex Létt Lopi and CC Einrúm L+2 in each colour as shown in the table below.

Size	1–3	4–5	6–7	8–10	11–12	13	14	15
MC	7	8	9	10	11	12	12	13
CC1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
CC2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
CC3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Sizing

The Bleideag pattern includes 15 sizes, with a finished chest circumference of 38" to 66", roughly equivalent to ready to wear sizes XS-5XL.

1[2, 3, 4, 5, 6] (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) [12, 13, 14, 15]
38[40, 42, 44, 46, 48] (50, 52, 54, 56, 58) [60, 62, 64, 66]" / 95[100, 105, 110, 115, 120] (125, 130, 135, 140, 145) [150, 155, 160, 165]cm finished chest circumference)

Our models are wearing the size 7 with C/D bust darts with between 4 and 9" of positive ease.

Finished Garment Measurements

Size	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Inches
chest	38	40	42	44	46	48	50	52	54	56	58	60	62	64	66
body length	12 1/2	12 3/4	13	13 1/4	13 1/2	13 3/4	14	14 1/4	14 1/2	14 3/4	15	15 1/4	15 1/2	15 3/4	16
upper arm	12	12 1/2	13 1/2	14	14 1/2	15	16	16 1/2	17	17 1/2	18 1/2	19	19 1/2	20	21
cuff	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12
sleeve length	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2	18 1/2
back yoke depth	8 1/2	8 1/2	8 1/2	8 3/4	8 3/4	9 1/4	9 1/2	10	10	10	10 1/4	10 3/4	10 3/4	11	11
CM
chest	95	100	105	110	115	120	125	130	135	140	145	150	155	160	165
body length	31.5	32	32.5	33	34	34.5	35	35.5	36.5	37	37.5	38	39	39.5	40
upper arm	30	31.5	34	35	36.5	37.5	40	41.5	42.5	44	46.5	47.5	49	50	52.5
cuff	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	30	30	30	30
sleeve length	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5	46.5
back yoke depth	21	21	21	22	22	23	24	25	25	25	25.5	26.5	26.5	27.5	27.5

Version information

Bleideag_print_v1.2.pdf, Bleideag_mobile_v1.2.pdf

Currency

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